Film Funding

  • Adam

    Spring Grants 2018 - Production Stage

    Abla runs a modest local bakery from her home in Casablanca where she lives alone with her 8-ye…

    Maryam Touzani / Morocco, France, Belgium, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • The Blessed

    Spring Grants 2017 - Post-Production Stage

    Algiers, a few years after the Civil War. Amal and Samir have decided to celebrate their 20th w…

    Sofia Djama / Algeria, France, Belgium, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Democracy Year Zero

    Fall Grant 2012 - Post-Production Stage

    Four weeks. That is how long it took the Tunisian people to overthrow the dictator Zine El Abid…

    Amira Chebli, Christophe Cotteret / Tunisia, Belgium, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • The Desert Fish

    Fall Grant 2012 - Production Stage

    The southern desert of Morocco. The son wants to become a fisherman and is always dreaming of t…

    Alaa Eddine Aljem / Morocco, France, Belgium, Qatar / Short Narrative

  • Femmetasia

    Fall Grants 2018 - Development Stage

    Coming from a humble village, Hanane is determined to make a name for herself as the founder an…

    Mouhssine El Badaoui / Morocco, Belgium, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Go Home

    Fall Grant 2011 - Development Stage

    Nada is going home. Or at least she wants to. When she returns to Lebanon, she realises she's a…

    Jihane Chouaib / Lebanon, France, Belgium, Switzerland, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Harvest

    Spring Grants 2018 - Production Stage

    A young woman walks out of the Beirut airport alone and makes her way back home to her parents’…

    Ely Dagher / Lebanon, France, Belgium, United States of America, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Hedi

    Fall Grant 2013 - Production Stage

    Hedi is a simple young man. He is not very talkative or reactive and does not expect much from…

    Mohamed Ben Attia / Tunisia, Belgium, France, United Arab Emirates, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • It’s Far Away Where I Must Go

    Fall Grants 2018 - Production Stage

    At the age of 70, my mother Aicha lost the notion of time and space. Forced to live in a nursin…

    Karima Saidi / Morocco, Belgium, Qatar / Feature Experimental or Essay

  • Man Without a Cellphone

    Fall Grant 2010 - Post-Production Stage

    A humorous, sharp take on the social milieu of a Palestinian village inside Israel. Jawdat just…

    Sameh Zoabi / Belgium, France, Palestine, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Merry Christmas, Yiwu

    Spring Grants 2019 - Post-Production Stage

    Communist ideals have long lost their value in Yiwu, a city with 600 Christmas factories, in wh…

    Mladen Kovacevic / Serbia, Sweden, Germany, France, Belgium, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • My Little One

    Spring Grants 2018 - Production Stage

    Sarah, a 35-year-old Belgian woman of Moroccan descent, longs to become a mother and start a fa…

    Kadija Saidi Leclere / Morocco, Belgium, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Papicha

    Spring Grants 2017 - Production Stage

    Algeria, 1990s—Nedjma is a free-spirited and independent young student. She refuses to allow th…

    Mounia Meddour / Algeria, France, Belgium, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Salaam Plenty

    Spring Grant 2012 - Development Stage

    'Salaam Plenty' is about the memory and erasure of the presence of Afghan cameleers in Australi…

    Samira (Yasmine) Kassari / Morocco, Australia, Belgium, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Weldi

    Spring Grants 2017 - Production Stage

    A Tunisian couple are nearing retirement age, but times are hard, and money is tight. The life…

    Mohamed Ben Attia / Tunisia, France, Belgium, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Yalla, Baba!

    Spring Grants 2019 - Development Stage

    In 1980, 32-year-old Mansour travelled to Belgium with his friends, bought cars, and set off on…

    Angie Obeid / Belgium, Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Documentary


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